Carcoar is a town in New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Blayney Shire. In 2006, 218 people lived in Carcoar. It next to the Mid-Western Highway, 258 km (160 mi) west of Sydney and 52 km (32 mi) south west of Bathurst. It is 720 m (2,362 ft) above sea-level. Carcoar is in a small green valley, with the town on both sides of the Belubula River.
Carcoar was once one of the most important government centres in Western New South Wales. The town has been classified by the National Trust. This is because it has a lot of buildings from the 1800s. Carcoar is a Aboriginal word from the Gundungura people meaning either frog or kookaburra.
Nearby towns are Blayney, Millthorpe, Mandurama, Neville, Lyndhurst and Barry.